http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.190376221&par=0
ADN Kronos International (Italy)
July 25, 2005
KOSOVO: PETERSEN READY TO SACK DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Pristina - The head of the United Nations
administration in Kosovo (Unmik) Soren Jessen Petersen
is about to sack the deputy prime minister Adem
Salihaj and two of his ministers - Melihata Termokli
and Astrit Haraci - Albanian language daily Koha
Ditore, said on Monday.
Over three months ago the opposition Democratic Party
of Kosovo (DPK) accused Salihaj and the two ministers
of corruption, saying that Salihaj was also heading an
illegal organisation called Security of Motherland,
which was responsible for several political murders.
After the accusations DPK leader Hasim Taci demanded
Salihaj's resignation, but the call went unheeded.
According to DPK, Salihaj was behind the killing of
several members of President Ibrahim Rugova's
Democratic Alliance of Kosovo.
Koha ditore said that Petersen, who as UN head has
wide powers in Kosovo after the withdrawal of the
Serbian army in 1999, was losing patience and would
sack Salihaj and two ministers "for abuse of power" by
September, if president Kosumi didn't act by then.
The paper said that Petersen wanted Salihaj to leave
his post before talks start on the final status of
Kosovo, whose majority ethnic Albanians demand
independence. According to Koha Ditore, Security of
Motherland has threatened to kill its editor and
several prominent politicians for making public
Salihaj's illegal activities.
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